6.27.2012

And the shotgun wins!

Never mind the whole stupidity behind 'throwing a hatchet at a guy armed with a shotgun' thing. Making the decision to rob a house already marks you as a little bit less than smart. What I find interesting/concerning is that this is the 2nd time in two weeks a bad guy has been shot with the 'death ray' that is a shotgun at household distances, and both times the bad guy has lived to talk about it.

I'd be very, very interested to see the full reports on what type of shell was actualy used here. Is it really possible that both these guys believed the 'shotgun hype' and felt that a load of 7.5 shot aimed in the general direction of a bad guy is gonna get the job done? I mean...in both cases it stopped the burglary, but I would prefer putting a bad guy DOWN HARD to injurying one enough he still has enough mental power left to get away.

I can only think that some shotgun (and other gun) owners are of the mind that guns are NOT for self-defense (until finding themselves defending themselves with it). Liberals honestly, even the one's who would even consider owning a gun, simply believe the world is hunky-dory, right until they are flabbergasted by reality. Either that, or the owners simply didn't put the right ammunition in the thing after coming home from a shoot (I've been guilty of that at least once). Double ought buck in mine, though I would probably grab the .45 (with 230 grain) or 9 mm (with 147 grain) defense bullets.

But a machete, really? What, has Africa come to our shor... Never... mind...

statement

"What did I want?

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The games' afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon.

I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is."
-- Glory Road, Robert Heinlein